QUOTE=Mike Shimwell;71704]Hi Asher
This is the first print file that I've made from this scan. Basically I've cleaned the few dust specs, a bit of sharpening and then burnt in the sky a little. The original has a lighter tone, but I wanted to emphasize the sunlight on the dunes between the foreground and the sky. Also, the foreground is representative of much of Namibia's bush landscape, which is often home to these thorn bushes, but rarely green! The colors remind me of the scent of the bush.[/quote]
This work is then finished and represents you well, the subject, your
oeuvre and the impression you want to send out. I'd be happy to see that regularly. We have to beware of looking for Disneylands or Joshua Tree National park in every scene. This picture is
factive and means a lot to me as such.
I'm happy for you to work on this. It's always interesting to see other's ideas and they can inform and help us all develop - even, or particularly, if they sit outside our original vision or intent.
Cheers
Mike
Having said how I appreciate
factive pictures, and I do, I also admit to enjoying engraving into a recorded image of a scene my own rankings and guide for the eye and senses. This is not to make vogue idealistic phantom places but rather to use the captured file as a basis for more
intimate observation of what is there
This is what I wrote but kept back my questions when I first saw you photograph yesterday.
I wonder if you might consider bringing out all the buildings so that they every detail celebrated in importance. That will create a sort of horizon from either side of which the hills and sky will overlook the land near us.
I personally would want more cloud and so I'd create 50% more, and since you were there and have, no doubt, other pictures, you can do that in one Hollywood minute...or 2
I'd take the bright part within the clouds and use that as a template to brighten a portion of the hills underneath the sky.
I would do the most dishonest damage in the foreground, entirely removing some trees/shrubs and defining the ridges in the soil so one is trapped to look at this and then be drawn in to the house on the mid left. Hey, I'd even cheat and sharpen selectively the path along which one might reach the key white building.
My ideas are not offered as "better" as for sure they cannot be. Rather I'm exploring what other ways the recorded image can be finished to to find significance in it.
Thanks so much,
Asher
